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Tom Arnold: Don't Call It A Comeback

Tom Arnold takes the stage to discuss his early job at a meatpacking plant, breaking into comedy, and his Viceland series, The Hunt for the Trump Tapes. Then, he plays a game about sports comebacks.
Ophira Eisenberg chats with Tom Arnold on <em>Ask Me Another</em> at the Bell House in Brooklyn, New York.

Before Tom Arnold was a comedian, he worked in an Iowa meatpacking plant. "If you work at a meatpacking plant, especially on the kill floor, two things are for sure," Tom Arnold told Ophira Eisenberg, host of NPR's . "One, you will get very drunk every night, and two, you'll have

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